AI Challenge

Goldmund, Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe presents Artificial Intelligence

15 OCTOBER 19:30 - 22:00

Grand Theatre Groningen

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism

Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing the news industry, as organizations use machine learning to automate thousands of stories, sift through massive data sets to find trends and outliers, and build bots that scale individual conversations with their audiences. That's just the beginning. But as the potential for artificial intelligence grows, so do the ethical implications. This event will explore the pitfalls and possibilities of how AI will transform the way we report — and consume — the news.

Program

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Crack More Panama Papers Stories By: Marina Walker (The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

The Panama Papers is an unprecedented investigation that reveals the offshore links of some of the globe’s most prominent figures. With the help of artificial intelligence ICIJ’s data and research unit indexed, organized and analyzed the 2.6 terabytes of data that make up the leak, using collaborative platforms to communicate and share documents with journalists working in 25 languages in nearly 80 countries.

One of the issues faced by journalists, researchers and businesspeople alike is making sense of very large amounts of textual data. Finding information that is significant in enormous dossiers full of unstructured documents can be very time-consuming or even downright impossible. Luckily, in this age of smart algorithms, there are AI-techniques that can offer a solution. With techniques like Named Entity Recognition, Automatic Summary Generation and Keyword Extraction, documents can be structured in a way that makes searching through them more feasible. In this presentation, we will go over some of these techniques, their inner workings, and some practical examples.

How will AI help investigative journalism? By: Eric Smit (Follow the Money)

Eric Smit from the research collective Follow the Money talks about how AI (will) help them with their investigative journalism and how the results of the investigation can be better shared with the members of their platform www.ftm.nl.

Ard Boer will present the new Sport Noord newsfeed where content is selected by an AI recommender. Most news outlets present the same content to all their users. The Sport Noord AI Recommender provides all users with a tailor-made newsfeed based upon their own preferences and behavior.

Speakers

Marina Walker Guevara

Deputy Director at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists & JSK fellow at Stanford University

The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers

Marina Walker Guevara co-leads the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network of reporters in 80 countries who collaborate on stories of global concern. She has managed the two largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data.

Eric Smit

Journalist/co-founder of Follow the Money

Co-founder Follow the Money

Eric Smit is journalist/social entrepreneur with a specific interest in the flows of money and most of all: gripping stories. He is co-founder and editor in chief of Follow the Money (FTM.nl), the first independent (for profit) platform for investigative journalism in the Netherlands.

Ard Boer

Productmanager at NDC mediagroep / co-founder at New Music Labs / speaker

Product manager at NDC mediagroep

Chief scientist and co-founder at New Music Labs.

New Music Labs is a Groningen (Netherlands) based company that develops creative concepts for music industry. Think full-blown artist websites, web applications & iPhone Apps. New Music Labs also develops and executes viral marketing concepts for established and upcoming artists. We get our kicks out of helping you get your music heard.

Thomas Derksen

Artificial Intelligence engineer

Thomas Derksen is an AI engineer and backend developer at Goldmund Wyldebeast and Wunderliebe. After finishing his master's degree in Artificial Intelligence in Groningen in 2016, he has worked on a wide array of AI-related projects. These projects range from automatic urban sound quality assessment to image classification tasks on old Egyptian artifacts.

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2019 April edition

Artificial Intelligence & Art

2018 October edition

Artificial Intelligence

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Like the invention of applied pigments, the printing press, photography, and computers, we believe machine intelligence is an innovation that will profoundly affect art. As with these earlier innovations, it will ultimately transform society in ways that are hard to imagine from today’s vantage point; in the nearer term, it will expand our understanding of both external reality and our perceptual and cognitive processes. During this event the influence of Artificial Intelligence on art wil be highlighted by numerous speakers and the audience is in an interactive way part of the show. Host of the event is Bram Douwes.

Pierre Fautrel

Co Founder at Obvious Art

Dr. Andreas Blühm

Director at Groninger Museum

Ard Boer

Thomas Derksen

Artificial Intelligence at Goldmund, Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe

2018 October edition

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If you don’t pay for it, you are the product. Whether we want it or not, our data is our newest currency. In times where we put privacy as such a high priority, our online and digital behaviour would tell you otherwise. It's called the intention behaviour gap. “I’ll give you my data, but I want a personal, custom-made offer in return.” And AI brings new dimensions to the collection of data and the tailer-made expectations: next to opinions and behaviours we can now also track emotions and personality. Challenging all data collecting organisations to pro-actively consider the question: how can we use such rich data in a meaningful and also ethically right way? How will the emotions and personalities of your end-uers change your organisations activities? Within which ethical framework can your organisation work with data? What does this all mean for our daily work?